Posted by Spex on 12/23/06 12:02

Martin Heffels wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:24:33 +0000, Spex <No.spam@ta.com> wrote:
>
>> Funny, my FCP has failed to crash at all. Perhaps they left this
>> feature out of my version...
>
> FCP up till 4.0 was quite crash-prone, but you know that. From 4.5 on, it
> got heaps better, and didn't crash that much. And if it didn't crash, you
> could not save the project-files once you were finished :-)) (happened more
> than crashing actually). I am sure that all these bugs are fixed by now.
> FCP gets better, but I don't like it's user-interface. If you don't know
> about that you can simply change your short-cut key layout, you will be
> stuck in very basic & frequent functions which need 2 or 3 modifier-keys to
> perform. Talk about getting cramps in your fingers :-))
> I am just a plain old Avid-head, but I am not stuck to it forever. I use
> other programs too, if they work better for a certain project.
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-

Yeah, Martin I agree. I am not as productive in FCP as I was in Avid as
I had years and years of time in Avid an unlearning is difficult. FCP
is a nice tool and is a million miles aways from the dross it used to
be. I haven't had it crash at all on my MBP and the integration with
the other appz in Studio is ace.

The reasons I dropped Avid was their protectionist attitude towards
Xpress users and the buggy updates. They limit the functionality to
protect MC whereas in FCP I can import, edit and output anything my
computer is capable of. In the new year I'll buy the 8 core Mac Pro,
FCP 6 and an AJA HD card all for little more than the price of the
software version of Media Composer (which still isn't a universal binary
yet!).

You are right, the days of people putting all their eggs in one basket
has long gone. There are so many excellent tools out there now and the
hegemony of one or two accepted system suppliers is now well and truly
broken there is no reason not to use the tool that best suits one's
needs and budget.

cheers

S

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